The Volokh Conspiracy
This blawg covers and debates news and political issues.
Author: The blawg's founder is Eugene Volokh (a professor at the University of California-Los Angeles School of Law). Other contributors: Dale Carpenter of the University of Minnesota; David Kopel, research director for the Independence Institute; David Bernstein, Ilya Somin, Todd J. Zywicki and Tyler Cowen of George Mason University; David Post of Temple University (who also contributes to ICANN Watch); Erik Jaffe, a Washington, D.C., solo; Jim Lindgren of Northwestern University, Jonathan Adler of Case Western Reserve University (who also contributes to Bench Memos); Orin Kerr of George Washington University, who also contributes to Convictions; Randy Barnett of Georgetown University; Russell Korobkin of UCLA; Stuart Benjamin of Duke University; and Eugene Volokh's brother Sasha Volokh, a professor at Georgetown University Law Center.
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Recent Posts from The Volokh Conspiracy
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July 5th Oration by Frederick Douglass:
Tomorrow I am hoping to attend a recreation of Frederick Douglass's Independence Day oration at his home in Anacostia, DC....
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Was the Declaration of Independence an Example of Secession, Revolution, or Both?
Patri Friedman of seasteading fame, has an interesting post reopening an old debate: whether the Declaration of Independence launched a revolution or a secession movement. This was a hotly...
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Obama to Meet with Russian Opposition Leaders:
Like Cathy Young, I worry that President Obama might be overly solicitous of the interests of Russia's authoritarian regime. In this respect, he could potentially repeat the mistakes of President...
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Zero Money Down, Not Subprime Status, Leads Foreclosures
according to Stan Liebowitz, reporting in the WSJ today (Friday, July 3, 2009 not sure if publicly available) on a regression analysis he conducted of home mortgage foreclosures. I wonder...
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The limits of global legalism.
The African Union has decided not to cooperate with the International Criminal Court, which has indicted Sudan’s president, Omar al-Bashir, for crimes against humanity. The African Union has 53 members,...
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Second-guessing the Second Amendment
That's the title of this week's Independence Day cover story in the Boulder Weekly. Among the articles which you can read on-line are a pair of pro/con essays on Second...
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The Freedom of Speech and Symbolic Expression:
I have an op-ed on the subject in the Wall Street Journal this morning, based on my Georgetown Law Journal article....
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Is International Criminal Law 'Crowding Out' the Rest of International Law?
That’s the question underlying my new essay, The Rise of International Criminal Law: Intended and Unintended Consequences, in the European Journal of International Law (Vol. 20, No. 2, June 2009)....
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"Buried Deep Within Thomas Jefferson's Correspondence and Papers,
there lay a mysterious cipher -- a coded message that appears to have remained unsolved. Until now." That's the start of a very interesting article in Wall Street Journal. Thanks...
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Why Obama Should Seek Legislative Support for Anti-Terror Policies:
On Monday, Benjamin Wittes and Jack Goldsmith had an op-ed in the Washington Post arguing that the Obama Administration should not replicate the Bush Administration's executive unilateralism in national security...